Sentences with phrase «climate impact studies»

The report sheds light on two contentious areas of climate impact studies, although it does not provide the definitive last word.

The document describes the overall conceptual framework that guided the project and provides the climate impact studies as well as the description of the new climate - compatible strategy for tea in Kenya.

Sarah's background is in atmospheric dynamics and she is interested in how large scale dynamics translates to climate impact studies.

The raw daily climate model simulation results were bias corrected according to the ISI - MIP protocol (1, 23), despite known caveats with respect to the use of bias correction in climate impact studies (24).

That means most climate impact studies tend to have an «optimistic bias».

Disclaimer / reality check: many established (UN) climate impact studies still refer to the old IPCC special report on emission scenarios (SRES), dating back to the year 2000.

We'll be awaiting new Amazon climate impact studies.

Standard methods of identifying record - setting trends are complex and not robust Record low minimums decreasing, record high maximums increasing Novel, simple method presented here will be useful for climate impact studies

Sarah's background is in atmospheric dynamics and she is interested in how large scale dynamics translates to climate impact studies.

He has co-lead several climate impacts studies in the greater New York and New Jersey region, including the New York City on Panel on Climate Change (NPCC).

Olivia Serdeczny, Research Analyst Focuses on non-economic loss and damage and the integration of quantitative and qualitative climate impacts studies, co-author of two of the World Bank's Turn Down the Heat report series.

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WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

This study looked at genetic (varieties) and management (row spacing and nitrogen) options to minimise the impact of climate change, using rain - out shelters to control rainfall; the results provided a platform to model wheat production in future climates.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iclimate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative iClimate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

With data collected over time, the study will increase our understanding of the local impacts of climate change and contribute to the natural history of Great Lakes fish.

«We appreciate the leadership of the Mayor and the pension trustees in requiring a study on the climate impact of the pension fund investments.»

Emissions of methane — which is a potent greenhouse gas - are already subject to control, but I am today commissioning a study of the possible impacts of shale gas development on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

She decided to study the role that organic particles play in cloud droplet formation, because a large proportion of marine aerosols — which have a significant climate impact — are organics.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

«Amazon studied to predict impact of climate change.»

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

But the impact these gases have on the climate has until now not been as widely studied as the effects of carbon dioxide emissions.

«This study shows it's possible to reduce coal use and cut emissions without major economic impacts, refuting skeptics who've predicted economic ruin,» said Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House official and climate expert attending the Paris negotiations.

Four News stories focus on past and future impacts of climate change and the techniques that researchers are using to study them.

In 2010, we went to Mongolia for a month, but in actuality we only had 10 to 15 days in the field, during which time we hoped to study the impact of climate change on wildfires in some of the country's larch forests.

Although we have been aware of the impact of volcanism on the climate for quite some time, the results presented in the study have disclosed that the opposite is also possible.

Katharine, you've studied the impact of climate change on specific locations around the world.

Tropical birds are also an interesting case study for climate change impacts on ecosystems.

The study's lead author, Professor Rosie Woodroffe of ZSL's Institute of Zoology, said: «Our study shows the truly global impact of climate change.

Climate change may be harming the future of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) by impacting the survival rates of pups, according to one of the first studies on how shifting temperatures are impacting tropical species.

We should get the best science and stay abreast of any threat from human impacts, but I am disturbed that we have spent over thirty billion dollars studying climate change and have little to show for it.

There is a risk that severity of epidemics of some wheat diseases may increase within the next ten to twenty years due to the impacts of climate change according to a study by international researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire.

«Incentives for permanent no till and especially permission to harvest CRP biomass for cellulosic biofuel would help to blunt the climate impact of future CRP conversion,» states the study's abstract, published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«We can predict the beginning of the Indian monsoon two weeks earlier, and the end of it even six weeks earlier than before — which is quite a breakthrough, given that for the farmers every day counts,» says Veronika Stolbova from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the University of Zurich, the lead - author of the study to be published in the Geophysical Research Letters.

In its most recent study of the impact of climate change, the Bureau of Meteorology noted that average temperatures across Australia have increased by almost 1 °C since 1910, and could rise by up to 5 °C by 2070.

Building on this study's findings, ZSL is conducting further research to explore whether and how climate change impacts on wild dogs might be mitigated.

Matthew Thomas, a professor at The Pennsylvania State University who is studying the impact of climate change on the transmission of infectious diseases, says that his group had applied for funding in late 2008.

Recent modelling by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm Climate Impact Research in Germany, as well as studies of past climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm climate, suggest that the planet will soon have warmed enough to melt Greenland's ice sheet entirely — if it hasn't already become warm enough.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about scarce water resources and their impacts: How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

Highly protected marine reserves can help mitigate against the impacts of climate change, a study by a team of international scientists has concluded.

An example of such translational engagement is the NOAA - funded Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific NorClimate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific NorImpacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Norimpacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Norclimate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Northwest.

These declines in rainfall could potentially alter the region's climate, disrupting rainforest ecosystems and impacting local economies, according to the study's authors.

The researchers measured the length, width and height of moose skulls to study the impact of climate change on the iconic Northwoods species.

Preston studies how adaptation efforts can reduce risk from climate change, especially at the state and city level (such as impacts to critical energy, water and transportation systems).

«The Amazon rainforest is one of the tipping elements in the Earth system,» says lead - author Delphine Clara Zemp who conducted the study at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change looks at the next 10,000 years, and finds that the catastrophic impact of another three centuries of carbon pollution will persist millennia after the carbon dioxide releases cease.